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Roseanne Barr: I know how...

Roseanne Barr: I know how...

I know how to do anything -- I'm a mom.

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Lily Tomlin: When we talk...

Lily Tomlin: When we talk...

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

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Goldie Hawn: Once you can...

Goldie Hawn: Once you can...

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If...

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Raquel Welch: We all have...

Raquel Welch: We all have...

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage...

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Marguerite Duras: The woman is...

Marguerite Duras: The woman is...

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: The mind wears...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: The mind wears...

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

Source: In...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: In this world...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: In this world...

In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do...

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Barbara Jordan: If you're going...

Barbara Jordan: If you're going...

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

Source: In...

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Golda Meir: At work, you...

Golda Meir: At work, you...

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such...

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Ann Richards: Poor George [Bush],...

Ann Richards: Poor George [Bush],...

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

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Elizabeth II: I should like...

Elizabeth II: I should like...

I should like to be a horse.

Source: When asked about her ambitions when a child;...

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Ninon de Lenclos: Much more genius...

Ninon de Lenclos: Much more genius...

Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies.

Source: In The...

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Ninon de Lenclos: Love never dies...

Ninon de Lenclos: Love never dies...

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Source: L'Esprit des...

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Lillian Smith: The human heart...

Lillian Smith: The human heart...

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children,...

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George Sand: Try to keep...

George Sand: Try to keep...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life...

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Alice Walker: God is inside...

Alice Walker: God is inside...

God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just...

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Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

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Beatrix Potter: Don't go into...

Beatrix Potter: Don't go into...

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs....

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